The head of the Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office (APO) Veronica Dragalin said that the political class’s message that she should not hold this position has been clear to her for a long time. The country's administration asked her to leave both directly and indirectly, IPN reports.
" I think the fact that the merger (of APO and PCCOCS) will have my removal from the position of chief prosecutor of the APO as an effect is obvious," Veronica Dragalin said in the program "Black Box Plus" on TV8 channel.
She insists that the Constitution clearly states that a politician cannot ask for the resignation of the chief anticorruption prosecutor or any other prosecutor. There is separation of powers in the state. It is the Superior Council of Prosecutors that is responsible for the career of prosecutors.
"The politicians do not have the constitutional or moral right to ask for my resignation," stated Veronica Dragalin.
Last November, the Supreme Security Council recommended the Government to propose changes in the Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office which, according to the head of state, fully failed to fight grand corruption. At that time, Maia Sandu said that the changes made at the Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office did not yield results. Last week, Minister of Justice Veronica Mihailov-Moraru confirmed that the APO could merge with the Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime and Special Cases. According to her, the merger of the two institutions, as well as other institutional models, are to be discussed on the parliamentary platform with the involvement of all the interested parties.
